PROGRAM'S BACKGROUND

The key operational planning areas you will focus on include: customer service, supply and inventory management, transportation and warehousing, order processing, sales forecasting and production scheduling. You will study Five Key Business Advantage Areas and you will improve your organization's performance in these areas:

›       Customer service advantage: Customers demand service, quality, reliability and responsiveness at the lowest cost. Evaluate how your logistics system can satisfy these needs?

›       Immediate cost-reduction opportunities: Eliminate waste and non-value-adding elements and streamline essential activities

›       Improved customer-supplier partnerships: Achieve synergy from effective management of the interfaces with customers and suppliers

›       Inventory elimination: New ways to eliminate or redeploy inventories

›       Information flow using better system technology: How to supply reliable, timely information on future availability of products and services and delivery

PROGRAM'S OBJECTIVES

This Program’s Attendees Will Be More Able To Know About:

›       Understand state-of-the-art logistics management and its implications for any department in your organization

›       Identify the best opportunities to improve your business logistics

›       Learn to better manage your inventory, transportation and distribution functions

›       Identify key elements of customer service and design the most profitable network

›       Collaborate with other managers to develop improvements – including supply chain, production, systems, sales and finance

›       How to reduce costs and improve customer order efficiency

›       How others have used logistics to achieve market breakthroughs

›       Whether to outsource – and if so, how to make the most of it

›       How online support is transforming logistics – what's working and what isn't

PROGRAM'S ATTENDEES

›       Logistics Consultants

›       Logistics and Financial Managers

›       Account and operations Managers for Third-Party Logistics providers

›       Warehousing Supervisors

›       Inventory Management

›       Logistics Operations Personnel

›       Purchasing Professionals

›       Procurement Professionals

›       Stock Control Personnel

›       Warehousing Professionals

›       Materials Management Personnel

›       Procurement, Buyers and Purchasing Professionals

›       Stock, Logistics, Warehouse and Distribution Personnel

›       Business Owners, VPs and Division Managers

›       Manufacturing, distribution and retail Leaders

›       Supply chain and operations Managers

›       Transportation and warehouse Managers

›       Purchasing and procurement Managers

›       Logistics planning and inventory Managers

›       Project Managers

PROGRAM'S OUTLINE

LOGISTICS ISSUES & PRIORITIES

›       Total logistics costs

›       Logistics as a strategic weapon

›       Training leaders to better manage processes and cost operations

YOUR LOGISTICS STRATEGY

›       Supporting business strategy and competitive value proposition

›       Establishing key business imperatives in all logistics areas

›       Performance metrics & benchmarking

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT & COST CUTTING

›       Optimal inventory decision-making

›       Costs and how to manage them

FORECASTING SALES & USAGE TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY

›       The keys to effective forecasting

›       Making forecast errors hurt less

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE MANAGEMENT

›       Fulfilling the promise to customers by creating the perfect order

›       The four posts: labor, equipment, layout, systems

›       Increasing revenue, reducing expenses

›       Designing operational flexibility

DESIGNING THE BEST DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

›       Understanding the decision drivers

›       Integrating with customers

›       Overcoming obstacles to change

›       Getting stakeholders on side

›       Devising a winning implementation plan

OUTSOURCING: THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS PERSPECTIVES

›       Understanding when to outsource

›       Dealing with the risks

›       Tactics for successful outsourcing

APPLYING TECHNOLOGY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

›       Aligning the technology promise with supply chain value

›       Frameworks for thinking about and applying technology

›       Project selection and organizing to succeed

SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPORTATION STRATEGY

›       Tips for reducing transportation costs

›       Effective strategies for buying transportation services

›       Transportation modal characteristics

›       Managing risk with cargo security programs

›       Minimizing liabilities with shipping terms of sale

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